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Snow dusted downtown Spokane earlier this week/Blaine Stum
Snow dusted downtown Spokane earlier this week/Blaine Stum

A quarterly review of the city’s key performance indicators, released Monday, shows improvement in outcomes in several priority areas.

According to a press release, violent crime was down 8.5 percent for the year. Residential burglary also declined last year. Fire and emergency medical response times also continued to exceed performance standards citywide, as did overall satisfaction with the city’s customer service resources.

look at the data shows the city is:

Driving down crime

  • Violent crime incidents were down 8.5 percent overall for the year, including:
  • Homicides down 30 percent
  • Robbery of a person down 10 percent
  • Aggravated assault non-domestic violence down 3.5 percent
  • Aggravated assault domestic violence down 4 percent
  • Residential burglary down 7 percent for the year

Quickly getting help to people who need it

  • Exceeded structure fire (94.4 percent in 8 minutes, 30 seconds or less) and non-life-threatening medical incident (90.2 percent in 8:30) response time targets
  • Exceeded call dispatch time goals (96.2 percent in 60 seconds or less) while piloting alternative response approaches to non-emergency calls

Connecting people to services that make a difference

  • Connected homeless people to service and resources that lead to stable housing and increased financial stability 88 percent of the time

Proactively maintaining the city’s assets

  • Tested water quality more proactively and discharged less, finishing the year without exceeding the limit of pollutants entering the river in any quarter
  • Better ensured the cleanliness and vitality of the Spokane River, reducing the number of combined sewer overflow events

 

 

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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